Just Like Us | movie | 2011 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00 [AUDIO OUT]

00:05 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:08 People in the West, man, they always

00:20 try to categorize us, putting us all together.

00:22 I'll have people come up to me, and they're like, oh, man,

00:25 where are you from?

00:27 I go, I'm from Egypt.

00:29 Really?

00:30 I got a friend from India.

00:31 [LAUGHTER]

00:33 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:36 I don't know!

00:39 I have never heard of comedy in the Middle East.

00:43 We don't even understand basic joke construction.

00:48 So long as our relationship is defined by our differences,

00:53 we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace.

00:57 Before, it's not allowed to have lots of people saying

01:00 comedy about politics and talking freedom.

01:04 But right now, it's become more free,

01:07 and people start to speak loudly.

01:09 We're not used to seeing the soldiers.

01:10 We're not used to seeing guns on the corners.

01:13 They're like, they're there for your safety.

01:14 OK.

01:15 [LAUGHTER]

01:16 It's good to lighten things up here sometimes.

01:18 Things can get heavy.

01:19 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:22 I think this area is just learning

01:24 how to laugh because of the intensity of their reality.

01:27 Some parts of the Arab world, you know,

01:29 they've had such an unlucky situation

01:31 that they have developed comedy as a tool of relief.

01:35 [INAUDIBLE]

01:36 [LAUGHTER]

01:39 [LAUGHTER]

01:41 [INAUDIBLE]

01:43 Comedy crosses borders.

01:44 It's the common language of the world.

01:46 The role of the comedian is to kind of speak truth to power

01:49 and point out things that maybe people aren't talking about.

01:52 First time female comic in the Middle East performing.

01:55 [CHEERING]

01:57 Before I came out here, everyone, you know,

01:59 was like, oh, be careful.

02:00 Like, they're oppressive of women over there.

02:02 And I come over here, and it was the opposite.

02:05 [LAUGHTER]

02:07 This is the first comedy show ever in Alexandria, Egypt.

02:10 So we're making history as we speak here.

02:11 [CHEERING]

02:13 Like you say, what's best than to laugh at ourselves?

02:16 We laugh at ourselves.

02:17 The rest of the world will laugh with us.

02:18 We laugh with us.

02:19 [MUSIC PLAYING]

02:21 Want to hear a really bad joke?

02:23 That's good, dude.

02:25 I have a very dirty one.

02:28 (upbeat music)

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